1、To be a popular student among class, we are _______ to sacrifice our personal interests whenever necessary.
A.obeyed
B.supposed
C.embarrassed
D.devoted
2、So far this year, no measures ________ against cruelty to animals despite their protest in the newspaper.
A.have taken
B.have been taken
C.had been taken
D.had taken
3、 things as they are and you will enjoy every day of your life.
A.Take B.To take C.Taking D.Taken
4、The twins were so much alike that it was impossible to ______ one from the other.
A. distinguish B. separate
C. identify D. recognize
5、He left a career in teaching to ________ a position with the Arts Council.
A.take off
B.take up
C.take down
D.take in
6、Even very young babies________their mothers’ presence.
A.switch off
B.benefit from
C.respond to
D.keep track of
7、 If it _________ for his invitation the other day, I should not be here now.
A. had not been B. should not be
C. were not to be D. should not have been
8、I've tried hard to improve my English.But by no means ________with my progress.
A. the teacher is not satisfied B. is the teacher not satisfied
C. the teacher is satisfied D. is the teacher satisfied
9、 It has been announced that the award will be given to ______ has made the largest donation to charity this year.
A. anyone B. the one
C. whomever D. whoever
10、Your parents ________ your health very much.
A.be worried to
B.is worried about
C.be worried about
D.are worried about
11、People often have difficulty facing reality when further scientific discovery challenges _______ they have previously thought to be settled facts.
A.what B.that C.who D.which
12、If he takes on this work,he will have no choice but_______an even greater challenge
A.meet
B.to meet
C.meeting
D.being met
13、she __________ that it is important to have a healthy balanced diet.
A.pointed out
B.pointed at
C.pointed to
D.point for
14、Not only _______ standard English, but _______ how to operate computers.
A.does he speak, he knows B.he speaks, does he also know
C.does he speak, does he also know D.he speaks, he knows
15、—Where did the professor made the speech yesterday?
—It was in the hall ________ the students often have a meeting ________ the professor made the speech yesterday.
A. that; which B. where; that C. that; when D. where; when
16、I want my friends to enjoy ________ at the dinner party.
A.itself
B.himself
C.herself
D.themselves
17、The plane _____ off at 10:10. That is, it ________ in ten minutes.
A.takes; is leaving
B.will take; is leaving
C.will take;leaves
D.takes; leaves
18、At first he refused to admit ________ his wife, but when he was shown the evidence he ________ and admitted.
A.to kill; broke down
B.to kill; broke in
C.killing; broke in
D.killing; broke down
19、—How can I pay for the goods, by credit card or by cash?
—________, just as you please.
A. Any B. None
C. Neither D. Either
20、Please wear your best clothes on Monday, as your class photos ______ then.
A. will take B. will be taken C. have taken D. have been taken
21、阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
CHICAGO ---- For working parents and heavily scheduled school kids, family mealtime is out of fashion. But supermarkets are trying to attract families back to the dinner table.
There is a cost if family members have meals apart: research shows that teenagers who don’t eat with their parents face a greater risk of drug and alcohol problems.
“The more often kids have dinner with their parents, the less likely they are to smoke, drink or use drugs,” said Joseph Califano Jr., head of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, which did the research.
Stores are familiar with the idea and will start telling shoppers about the findings and encouraging them to share meals together at home, instead of separately or at restaurants.
The food marketing Institute will give $25,000 to the center and help stores promote the center’s Family Day in September.
Many stores have grab-and-go dinners and recipe cards. Some have kiosks where people can taste a main dish, then pick out side dishes.
“Our members have worked hard to try to have easily prepared food either ready to eat or ready to take home,” said Tim Hammonds, the institute’s president and chief executive.
Los Angeles-based Contessa Premium Foods makes frozen delicious meals, which a family can heat in 10 minutes to 12 minutes. “That’s nearly as fast as a TV dinner,” said president and chief executive John Z. Blazevich, “but is healthier and makes people feel like they actually cooked.”
“The preparation is the hardest part, so we try to combine a variety of tastes and flavours from around the world and make it fast and easy,” he said.
“Eating at home helps keep meals healthy and teaches kids how to eat right. If we can get people back to having family dinners, parents back to being engaged with their kids, it will have a surprising impact,” he said.
【1】The reasons why family mealtime is out of fashion are the following EXCEPT __________.
A. the parents are busy with work
B. the children have a little spare time
C. the children are not fond of family meal
D. it will take much time to cook and eat at home
【2】The underlined word “cost” in paragraph 2 can be explained as ___________.
A. gains B. a sum of money
C. advantage D. something you lose
【3】According to the passage, stores are trying to attract families back to the dinner table by the following ways EXCEPT ________.
A. telling the parents the disadvantages of having dinner separately.
B. offering various prepared food to make family cooking fast and easy.
C. taking part in Family Day activities in September.
D. helping housewives prepare their meals at home.
【4】What is the passage mainly about?
A. The efforts that are being made to get people back to having family dinners
B. The benefits of having family dinners together.
C. The changes in American family dinners.
D. A research done by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse.
【5】What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Family Mealtime is out of Fashion
B. Family Day is Promoted in September
C. Parents should Cook Meals for Kids
D. Supermarkets Urges Families to Dinner Table
22、 When men and women take personality tests,some of the old Mars-Venus stereotypes(定式)keep reappearing. On average,women are more cooperative,kind,cautious and emotionally enthusiastic. Men tend to be more competitive,confident,rude and emotionally flat. Clear differences appear in early childhood and never disappear.
What's not clear is the origin of these differences. Evolutionary psychologists think that these are natural features from ancient hunters and gatherers. Another school of psychologists argues that both sexes' personalities have been shaped by traditional social roles,and that personality differences will shrink as women spend less time taking care of children and more time in jobs outside the home.
To test these hypotheses(假设),a series of research teams have repeatedly analyzed personality tests taken by men and women in more than 60 countries around the world.For evolutionary psychologists,the bad news is that the size of the gender gap in personality varies among cultures.For social-role psychologists,the bad news is that the change is going in the wrong direction.It looks as if personality differences between men and women are smaller in traditional cultures like India's or Zimbabwe's than in the Netherlands or the United States.A husband and a stay-at-home wife in a patriarchal(男权的)Botswanan clan(部族)seem to be more alike than a working couple in Denmark or France.The more Venus and Mars have equal rights and similarjobs,the more their personalities sem to separate.
These findings are so unbelievable that some researchers have argued they must be due to cross-cultural problems with the personality tests. But according to new data from 40.000 men and women on six continents,David P. Schmitt and his colleagues conclude that the trends are real. Dr. Schmitt,a psychologist at Bradley University in I llinois and the director of the International Sexuality Description Project,suggests that as wealthy modern societies level(使平等)the barriers between women and men,some ancient internal differences are being developed.
The biggest changes recorded by the researchers involve the personalities of men, not women.
Men in traditional agricultural societies and poorer countries seem more cautious and anxious, less confident and less competitive than men in the most progressive and rich countries of Europe and North America.
To explain these differences, Dr. Schmitt and his partners from Austria and Estonia point to the hardships of life in poorer countries. They note that in some other species, environmental stress tends to extremely affect the larger sex. And, they say, there are examples of stress decreasing biological sex differences in humans.
【1】According to personality tests, the differences between men and women begin to exist________.
A.ocesionally and temporarily B.randomly and forever
C.regularly and constantly D.early and permanently
【2】What is stated in Paragraph 2 is to indicate________.
A.psychologists have no way to know the origin of the differences
B.experts fight against one another
C.the explanation for the differences is open to tests
D.women will solve the problem of the personality differences
【3】Now researchers tend to believe that the differences between men and women________.
A.originate from ancient hunters and gatherers B.are shaped by traditional social roles they play
C.are affected by traditional cultures D.vary from one culture to another
【4】What can be inferred about Dr. Schmitt?
A.He doesn't recognize the findings above.
B.He thinks social environment contributes to some internal differences.
C.He believes wealthy women and men are equal.
D.He has no examples to explain the differenees at all.
23、 You'll probably never go to Mars or sing on the stage with The Rolling Stones. But if virtual reality (VR)ever lives up to its promise, you might be able to do all these things - and many more - without even leaving your home.Unlike real reality, virtual reality means simulating(模拟)bits of our world. Apart from games and entertainment, it's long been used for training airline pilots and surgeons and for helping scientists to figure out difficult problems such as the structure of protein molecules(蛋白质分子). Then how does it work?
Close your eyes and think of virtual reality and you probably picture something like this:a man wearing a wrap-around headset and data gloves wired into a powerful workstation or supercomputer. What distinguishes VR from an ordinary computer experiences the nature of the input and output. While an ordinary computer uses things like a keyboard, a mouse, or speech recognition for input, VR uses sensors that detect how your body is moving. A PC displays output on a screen while VR uses two screens (one for each eye) , surround-sound speakers, and maybe some forms of touch and body feedback as well.
VR has been routinely used by scientists,doctors, engineers, architects, archaeologists, and the military for about the last 30 years. Difficult and dangerous jobs are hard to train for. How can you safely practice taking a trip to space, making a parachute jump, or carrying out brain surgery? All these things are obvious candidates for virtual reality applications.
Like any technology, virtual reality has both good and bad points. Critics always raise the risk that people may be addicted to alternative realities to the point of ignoring their real-world lives, but this criticism has been leveled at everything from radio and TV to computer games and the Internet. Like many technologies, VR takes little or nothing away from the real world: you don't have to use it if you don't want to.
【1】According to the passage, virtual reality means ____________ .
A.imagining beautiful things in our mind
B.creating something that doesn't exist
C.creating an environment that seems real
D.cloning something that has died out
【2】What equipment do we probably need for virtual reality?
A.A keyboard, a headset and a supercomputer.
B.A headset, data gloves and speech recognition.
C.A headset, data gloves and a supercomputer.
D.A keyboard, a mouse and speech recognition.
【3】Paragraph 3 is mainly about ____________ .
A.the principles of virtual reality
B.the applications of virtual reality
C.the history of virtual reality
D.the study team of virtual reality
【4】What is the writer's attitude towards VR?
A.Appreciative.
B.Cautious.
C.Skeptical.
D.Indifferent.
24、 Can animals be artistic? Some experts think so. Painting and music are part of efforts to keep animals happy at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. Zookeepers there believe that animals need enrichment just like people do.
A sloth bear (长毛熊) called Francois is one of the National Zoo’s artists. He began his artistic career two years ago. Francois has a very unusual way to paint. He uses his breath to paint. His zookeeper, Stacey Tabellario, says that although the technique may look strange, it is actually a very natural behavior for sloth bears. They have got big lungs and they can breathe out a huge amount of air. The zookeepers fill one of those tubes fill of paint and ask them to breathe through it And they blow all of the paint onto the canvas (画布), making the really cool paintings.
Animal artists come in all shapes and sizes at the Zoo. They use many kinds of techniques to create their works of art. Apes use paintbrushes. Many use their paws or claws — much like a human painter would use his or her hands.
Stacey Tabellario says Francois seems to enjoy expressing himself through his art. “When I set up the materials for painting activity, he comes and sits next to them and waits until we are ready to start painting. He does that every time. I also see where his eyes go. He dose see the paints come out of the tube and land on the canvas.” But not every animal wants to paint.
Music is another part of the arts enrichment program. Physically and mentally interesting (有趣味的) activities are an important part of the daily care of the animals. Trainers have a set of tools, from tablet computers to small toys.
Kenton Kerns says the program helps the animals and the zookeepers in many ways. Every interaction between keepers and their animals creates some sort of connections. The one-of-a-kind works of art created by the animals are popular with zoo visitors. Many are sold at the zoo’s fundraising events.
【1】What is the best title for the text?
A.Art Works in the Zoo
B.Zoo Animals Show Artistic Side
C.Animals can Earn Money
D.Animals Enjoy Painting
【2】What can we learn from the second paragraph?
A.Francois is a two-year-old artist at the National Zoo.
B.Francois’ way to paint is unusual for sloth bears.
C.Francois’ big lungs determine the way it paints.
D.Francois paints with the help of his feet.
【3】According to Stacey Tabellario, Francois __________.
A.is fond of painting
B.likes to stay with other animals
C.often shows the painting to the audience
D.wants to get attention from the zookeepers by painting
【4】What do we know about the art program according to Kenton Kerns?
A.It enriches the keepers’ life.
B.It makes the animals clever.
C.It intends to collect money for the zoo.
D.It deepens the relationship between animals and keepers.
25、 All of us can give others a hand as long as we are willing to do so. Actually, there are some people doing kind things all the time. Spreading kindness, one good deed at a time, is Karla Gibson’s mission. “I wish everyone could join me. There are so many ____ things going on in the world; I mean every day,” said Karla.
Karla had the ____ and sense of duty in December of 2013. The single mother of three said she tended to feel depressed around the holidays, so she ____ to do something to cheer others up. She started a Facebook page and ____ her good deeds each day, from feeding the homeless to giving Easter gifts to the incarcerated (囚犯). She hoped to ____ others.
“We have to do something. Our ____ can make a difference in someone’s day. You ____ know when someone might be having their worst day, and then something like buying them a coffee can change their whole attitude,” Karla ____.
Karla’s greatest ____ so far had to do with coffee. On September 27th, Karla’s birthday, she went to her local Starbucks and gave the ____ $127 to pay for other people’s drinks. She sat at the end of the drive-through holding a ____ that read, “Have a great day.” She ended up ____ about 23 customers. “It was really fun. It was ____ one of the best birthdays ever.” she said. Her kindness that day didn’t go ____. One couple was so grateful that they surprised her with flowers and balloons to show their ____.
Karla’s acts of kindness have become a ____ affair. Her two sons are always ____ others. “Sometimes I’ll ask Kyle, ‘So, did you do anything extra nice today?’ and his answers are like ‘Somebody ____ something in the hallway and I picked it up’ or ‘I held the door for someone’, that kind of thing,” said Karla.
It’s because of Mom that the boys think it’s ____ to give a hand to others. “I think it’s a great idea of hers. It’s always nice to help someone out ____ they really need it,” said Karla’s 15-year-old son Chad.
【1】A.good B.bad C.new D.casual
【2】A.commitment B.appointment C.preference D.success
【3】A.managed B.agreed C.hesitated D.decided
【4】A.did B.mentioned C.shared D.missed
【5】A.greet B.inspire C.introduce D.remember
【6】A.kindness B.happiness C.stories D.sadness
【7】A.still B.often C.never D.even
【8】A.whispered B.explained C.reported D.replied
【9】A.surprise B.challenge C.concern D.moment
【10】A.cashier B.customer C.beggar D.secretary
【11】A.mark B.sign C.symbol D.flag
【12】A.paying for B.picking up C.paying off D.picking out
【13】A.occasionally B.usually C.probably D.hardly
【14】A.unoccupied B.unnoticed C.unorganized D.unquestioned
【15】A.wisdom B.existence C.generosity D.appreciation
【16】A.society B.love C.holiday D.family
【17】A.encouraging B.inviting C.helping D.affecting
【18】A.dropped B.bought C.found D.fell
【19】A.strange B.lucky C.cool D.funny
【20】A.after B.though C.unless D.when
26、假定你是校学生会主席李华,你校将举办一次关于国际贸易的研讨会。请你给交换生Mary写一封电子邮件,邀请她参加。内容包括:
1.时间:9月15日下午3:00—6:00;
2.地点:学校礼堂;
3.内容:观看国际贸易相关视频;专家分析国际贸易形势;互动交流。
注意:1.词数100左右(开头和结尾已给出,但不计入总词数);
2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
参考词汇:研讨会 seminar
Dear Mary,
I’ m Li Hua, chairman of the Student Union of our school.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I’ m looking forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua